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The Evolution of RSS

RSS 0.92

Userland Software released RSS 0.92 in December 2000.
Based on Netscape's 0.91, 0.92 adds new optional features that developers wanted
like blog synthesis (item sub-elements optional, item descriptions can contain entity-encoded HTML markup [links, etc.]), source attribution (source of item), enclosures, taxonomy information (category of item), and the
cloud sub-element of channel, which notifies aggregators when the channel is updated for more timely updates, and to save bandwidth.
RSS 0.92 is upwardly compatible with RSS 0.91 as new features of 0.92 are optional, meaning that a 0.91 file is also a valid 0.92 file.

There is no RSS 0.92 DTD (see the spec above), but it would look something like this: